The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods | Roger Hanlon
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2019
- Octopus, squid and cuttlefish -- collectively known as cephalopods -- have strange, massive, distributed brains. What do they do with all that neural power? Dive into the ocean with marine biologist Roger Hanlon, who shares astonishing footage of the camouflaging abilities of cephalopods, which can change their skin color and texture in a flash. Learn how their smart skin, and their ability to deploy it in sophisticated ways, could be evidence of an alternative form of intelligence -- and how it could lead to breakthroughs in AI, fabrics, cosmetics and beyond.
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I used to live in the Florida Keys and was in the ocean all the time - sometimes 2-4x/day on average. I loved playing with the Cuttlefish - I'd bring bracelets with colored gemstones on them, a water ring game, waterproof picture cards, etc. They always loved that stuff - you could clearly see them learning, and after a bit they began to figure out how to communicate with me through their body language! These creatures are very very smart... Ever since then I have not eaten squid, octopus, etc - they seemed to be as smart as young children, so to me killing one was a sin...
Goes for all animals :)
“one two three four five and now i’m a seaweed”
Joke
@@radjabomarov8014 Yolk
But you don't look like a seaweed lol
@@user-wm2sc6rz4l yolk of eggs?
Tasty
Since a boy in the 70's, I have always loved cephalopods. I had 2 Jacques Cousteau books on squid and octopuses. To me, intelligence is a measurement of problem solving to your benefit and these animals surely show that attribute.
tim smith pervert
No,their intelligence is a bit different
I remember watching a nature show that had a segment about an aquarium that had an octopus in one tank, and some fish in the neighboring tank. There was a few feet of shelf between the tanks, they were not right up against eachother. . The scientists started noticing there would be fewer fish in the fishtank when they came in every morning. They set up a camera to film at night. The octopus was climbing out of his own tank, creeping along the shelf, and going into the fish tank to eat some fish. Then it would creep BACK TO HIS OWN TANK and sit there looking all innocent in the morning. They are smart af. Then in another story they put a small fish in a glass jar of water with a screw-on top. They put the jar into the octopus tank. The octopus could see the fish and wanted to eat it. It surrounded the jar and just kept investigating with it's arms, and it quickly figured out how to UNSCREW the lid of the jar to get the fish. That is a complicated action, not simple like just squeezing or hitting something until it breaks. You have to hold the jar tightly with one arm and twist the lid with the other arm.
That's awesome!
@@user-wm2sc6rz4l No for real! search it here in youtube. Octopi are amazingly smart and complex. I accidentally yesterday saw a snippet of a video of someone eating a live octopus ( for a stupid mukbang) and it was terrible to think about an animal with that complex nervous system and brain, maybe even comprehending what was happening. I'm not vegan but can we at least just not torture the creatures we are eating?
Here in Canada in 2013 there was an octopus that broke out of it's enclosure at night in a science center when nobody was around and they found it the next day crawling around the floor exploring the facility, it was crazy because the enclosure was secured and locked with weights and mesh and they have no idea to this day how it escaped
Liam Mullen They can telemorph.
Wow America online, are you a bot or some developing AI in learning, you're definitely not human!!
Lestrange, it is amazing to see how intelligent these animals are. All life is amazing, live is amazing. At least the idiot made you tell one more interesting story. Oh and go work with animals, in short it just makes you feel good as a human.
I love that as humans, we look at these creatures with awe and wonder like children at their first magic show. I dislike however, that there are also humans looking at this and thinking 'How can we turn this into a weapon?'
There are also humans trying to figure out how to make tastier food out of them.
the military have been working on that but not as a weapon, but more like harry potters invisible cloak...
@@romanski5811 not at all.not justified.that is stupidity.
@@romanski5811 yes
@@romanski5811 what happened,loser
Damn I could watch this guy talk for hours on this subject! It's a shame it just lasted 13 minutes.
It went by quick
Check out the “Teuthology” episode of a podcast called Ologies. Good stuff.
Yeah I don't know why they time this stuff just let them talk for an hour or more then cut down a video to make it smaller and post both
@@waynethegreat23 It's because he only started this research a few years ago so there's more they have yet to discover!
When you think about it, it's absolutely mind-blowing that they can do all that, and so fast no less. Imagine if you had the ability to change the color and height of your skin and wanted to camouflage. Just try to think about the monumental task of controlling each of those thousands of individual "skin pixels" in a split second in just the right way to match the surroundings. 🤯
Dang your username is just -. Thats pretty awesome.
It definitely sounds challenging, and it is until you get used to it,
@@ghostrecon3214 Yup yup. I think the color changing actually comes as naturally to them as breathing does to us.
There's a fascinating book by author Peter Godfrey-Smith called "Other Minds" about this very subject, well worth reading!
This is his talk...
ua-cam.com/video/iENXfnOobzw/v-deo.html
Great tip! Thank you Louis-Philippe!
i know i'm late to the party but if you're looking for recommended reading i cannot speak highly enough of martin moynihans book communication and noncommunication by cephalopods. check it out!
@@brianmcgoldrick9529 thanks!
I have just started reading this book …..it is really worth reading and makes one feel so humble at the wonderful ways of the evolution !!!!!
I’ll never eat another octopus salad again
I bet the first person that see the amazing camouflage of the Octopus thought they was hallucinating when they see that amazing event.
Incredible to think humans could adopt this behavior with technology
Noah Page They even create the front of a train based on the tip of the mouth of a certain quick prey diving bird to reduce the noise when cutting threw the wind. Many things are inspired by nature and there are books about it too.
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For sure, if anything what he's referring to is gonna be a sort of computer clothing. Computers have 'nervous systems' in the motherboard, but if we apply that to textures/colors within a wiring system in our clothing or even our other tech, the possibilities are endless!
straight up Aliens
@Jaime Alonzo You base your word on other men's opinions. Think for yourself for once.
Cephalopods are fast becoming my favourite class of animal - I once saw Squid being hauled up by fisherman and my reaction was distress - I literally cried at these beautiful creatures being caught. There is something deeply ‘kinlike’ to these creatures - the eyes, the hugely clever mimicry, that amazing, amazing skin! And finally, if someone told me that a particular class of marine invertebrates actually evolved on another planet before arriving here - I’d say it was the Cephalopods.
Super awesome. Thanks for the video!
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I fell in love with cuttlefish in 2014 when I watched kings of camoflauge on UA-cam.
I love this channel, I feel a little smarter with every video.
Wow great talk on an incredibly fascinating subject.
"Brains are really good at control." he says.....
Really? Is that why i have another new guitar.. yet can't pay my rent? Again?
From one guitarist to another, brother, just pay your rent. Your playing will be better because you won't have money stress running in the background of your brain. Even if you don't notice it consciously, it will affect how you play.
You can never have too many guitars, makes me understand the cerebral defect women have for buying shoes
No brain is worse. You just drift with barely any motory response. Imagine not paying rent, and not being able to figure out how to get off the floor.
*"I'm not saying it's aliens...."*
all-in-1 gillie suit. . . awesome
This was so awesome! Octopuses are my favorite!!!❤ 🐙
absolutely amazing stuff
amazing
love your videos!
Really?
Absolutely amazing!
Beautiful, amazing! I love them! Especially the adorable cuttlefish and how they fend off on the one side, but then flush all fresh and friendly for the female on the other side. How sweet is that?! Just think: ink that you could control in your skin, like tattoos you could switch out painlessly and in seconds almost like led signs rotate through ads. I mean it is creepy, but mesmerizing and incredible they have such similar cognitive abilities to a 4 year old human. I’m sure they have many other logical abilities and awarenesses we have only barely scratched the surface. They’re fascinating. I can’t help but love them, even as they kind of horrify me in the same breath. Shape-shifters, seems almost alien, and yet we share this earth and share a common ancestor of some worm. It really is out there, isn’t it? Iridescent, light sensitive skin! What a trip. So awesome.
Absolutely Fascinating, Thank you👍👍👍.
Melbourne, Australia.
Really?
Radjab Omarov Really Really!
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I'd love to see it try and camoflage on top of a fractal pattern - seeing as the rocks and pattern on it are more similar to a fractal than a checkerboard.
Octopodes are my favourite animals. I'm more than pleased about this video :)
Fascinating
It's amazing to see them underwater, they're such an incredible specie
Need more of this man. There's more to intelligence than human thought - or think.
the best ted talks are the ones with serious investigation results
Well spoken fella, very interesting too ... i wonder the applications we'll find from them.
Answers me
Really cool!
Nature and His creatures never stop amaze me.
Cloaking technology
Joannot Fampionona seriously tho
MGS4 was right!
If these creatures can do this...it makes it less of a stretch when considering the possibility abilities of creatures or life from other planets...dimensions...whatever. We have shapeshifting creatures rite here on our own planet. So the idea that a shapeshifting alien could be walking amongst us and we not even know it becomes more feasible.
James Grider start with actually finding life on other planets before thinking about what they can/cant do
Mike you think they havnt.....The evidence is overwhelming in terms of sitings of technology that does not exist according to our capabilities on this planet. It came from somewhere else.
was good and very interesting until the potential applications :(
Wow!
Now multiply this by the trillions of “possibly habitable” planets in the known universe...
And you thought you were unique?!
We are basic in our complexities... & we amaze ourselves constantly!
Life is so beautiful!
I find cephalopods such interesting and also very beautiful animals. 🤩
😇 Fascinating Ted Talk 😇
Thank You
Awesome!
This is the most amazing thing ever
💓🥰❤️🐙🦑💕
Amazed me what I find amazing
Octopuses are my favourite animal!!!
I hate how there is too many words i don't understand, but i don't hate the talk for it.. i hate myself for not knowing it..
Awesome talk!
sherif hany Don’t hate ... expand. Peace.
Answers me
It's an amazing sir
Amazing
The Ceph are coming to clean this planet of this hairless ape infestation.
4G12 they're being pretty damn lazy about it. Getting fished up and eaten by us regularly and all.
Wow, that's probably the inspiration for modern drones that employ active camouflage by using 360 degrees cameras on the upper surface and high resolution LEDs on the bottom surface, thus showing the sky to viewers from earth.
The human ability to learn and recognize complexities in life and teach them. Worldwide. Our language is magic, look at everything around. Good luck enjoying and helping change the world humans🌏🌍🌎
Roger Halon reminds me of Miles Dyson. Military is gonna love this new "fashion" tech!
I love this
Finally I have a video to show to my Chinese science students when they ask me why is octopus my favorite animal. :-)
You probably made them hungry
CBS Sunday morning brought me here
Jaron Lanier mentions this in ‘You are not a gadget’
Excellent discussion about the construction of a very different lifeform. RNA editing, pattern and texture mimicry, memory, problem solving, all this is astounding. What spoils the presentation is the evolutionary tree chart. How can any thinking person witness animals with these abilities and characteristics and then ascribe it all to mindlessness? There has never been seen any random process that increases complexity. Ask Richard Dawkins.
Humboldt squid form packs and communicate strategy to each other through skin patterns. Scary.
whats scary is thinking about the first one who came back from an unsuccessful hunt and gave them all the Locker room halftime speech plus the tactics to succeed. brought them all together as a team and them successfully passed it down the gene pool. this is along the lines of some humans living in huts/tent/yurts/caves/and small clay dwellings and then one day some guy saying "what if we built a couple buildings 1000 times bigger than we ever had out of materials we have to painstakingly dig up miles away i mean huge stones and sheets of limestone weighing in at several tons, in a shaped we have NEVER used before. it will be so large, NO *GIGANTIC* that the construction can never be completed in one NO two lifetimes maybe even hundreds of years. and we shall call hem the pyramids" yeah sometimes earth organisms just end up doing some weird stuff when they get together,extreme comparison i know but like that is not a part of biological evolution you chose to do that, why? you chose to use your skin to coordinate strategy. and then whole day of rabbit hole thoughts come from.
I've often wondered could octopus potentially pass down the capacity for new knowledge through RNA? Maybe not RNA but epigenetics activating aspects of RNA and DNA but on a different level we hadn't imagined before with octopus.
Outstanding fantastic animals. I’ve had the pleasure of getting up close and personal with a squid then he inked me and poof! He was gone. Wonderful.
BigDudeUK I’ve had dates like that before.
That's inkredible
So is it possible
To skin a octo and still have it flesh operational
And does creating a skin or suit that can mimic the same, does it need multiple visual receptors?
And can we manipulate a computer to mimic these cognitive pattern with even more precision
How do we truly know what that actually look like? Is the form they take passed down like fashion ?
You see this octopus perambulating along...
Maybe this is the research that went into making Rorschach’s mask.
I don't know. The beginning of every good discussion
They will make a formidable foe in future wars to come..
One of the top ones I’ve ever heard... I loved it.
All hail the mighty Cthulhu brain!!
Maybe it’s the blood, maybe there blue blood and the copper in it helps with the color changing.
ALIENS: "yup, lets pack our bags guys, we can compete against that"
He mentioned using artificial cromatophores for fashion, but I've got a different idea. What if we made computer screens with it? They wouldn't produce their own light, so they wouldn't give people seizures.
This is why I no longer eat octopus and cuttlefish. All the dumb animals are still on the menu.
Don't eat them, learn from them.
Who doesn't like tako's? mm tasty teachers..
Wow!
and people don't think evil people are shapeshifting lizards
One of the most interesting skinscells
Jesus these little guys are so cool, the way he just appears in that first clip reminds me of the Predator. Not to mention these dudes are pretty intelligent, at least they certainly seem to be, using tools and what not. They definantly seem smarter than like the average dog or cat, they seem closer to dolphins amd humans honestly. They live in such a different environment and life such different lives its hard to gauge theyre intelligence, conpared to ourselves anyway. There's real life aliens right here on earth, the oceans a crazy big, crazy cool, crazy spooky place thats certainly hiding all sorts or creaturea amd stuff we cant even imagine.
The aliens in the movie Arrival were cephalopod-ish
Im sorry i couldnt hear you with my custom baby cuttle fish skin boors!!
So they are like marvel super heros with camouflage
The amazing
No worries, I bet DARPA is working on that right now.
Octopus, its intelligence is dynamic camouflage. Makes over 100 camouflage decisions per day to stay alive. Learning from Octopus, Cuttlefish, and squid we can possibly manufacture smart materials that change shape and colors on demand. #TEDtalk twitter.com/tedstalkin
CEPHALOPOD ACTIVITIES!!
When it comes to biology, nothing is impossible. I imagine that somewhere in this universe there are some intelligent organisms that can communicate through telepathy, or have some other absurd natural abilities which we think are impossible.
Why would anyone dislike this
Aliens basically use octopus cloaking. Lmao
what this guy is pretty much saying is that people underestimate creatures for being less intelligent than they really are. I always knew many creatures are like humans
contextural awareness
Cool
I've been thinking prevention of skin cancer , the way they can reflect light. Sun's getting hotter ever day
"Ancient, sapient, scintillating cephalopods, cephalopods
Transdifferentiating
cephalopods, cephalopods" - Alkaloid \m/
Will the octopus be the next major animal after the human?
Thank you for your compliance not if we kill it off, because we’re stupid like that
!Cool
I thought the plural of "octopus" was "octopode."
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Most likely DARPA will look at ways to use and weaponise
cool